A brush fire scorched dozens of acres of open terrain south of Pyramid Lake Thursday amid high wind conditions, but no injuries were reported and no structures damaged.
According to the Los Angeles County Fire Department, firefighters responded to the 39000 block of Golden State Highway around 12:15 p.m. Thursday.
The Frenchman Fire — so named due to its proximity to the Frenchman Flat area — was initially estimated at 50 acres, but county fire officials later put its size at 75 acres. Angeles National Forest fire crews subsequently moved the size back to 50 acres, saying forward progress had been stopped shortly after 2:30 p.m.
The cause of the fire was unknown.